Ixion, A king of Thessaly, who falslye brake prowise with his wiues father, and threw him into a pit of sire. He also called by Iupiter vnto a feast, stirred Iuno to commit adulterie, which Iupiter perceyuing made a cloude lyke vnto Iuno, and deliuered hir to him, on whome be begat the people called Centauri. But when he had auaunted, that he had companyed with Iuno, he was driuen downe into Hell & there bound to a wheele alwayes turning and full of Serpents, as Poets feigne.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ixīon, ŏnis, m., = *)ici/wn,the son of Phlegyas (acc. to others, of Antion or of Jupiter), king of the Lapithæ in Thessaly, and father of Pirithoüs. He murdered his father-in-law, to avoid paying the nuptial presents; and as no one would absolve him after such a deed, Jupiter took him into heaven and there purified him. When, notwithstanding this, he made an attempt on the chastity of Juno, Jupiter substituted for her an image of cloud, with which he begat the Centaurs; but having boasted of his imaginary criminal success with Juno, Jupiter hurled him into Tartarus, where he was bound fast to an ever-revolving wheel, Ov. M. 4, 465; 10, 42; Verg. A. 6, 601: Ixione natus, i. e.
Pirithoüs
, Ov. M. 12, 210: Ixione nati,
the Centaurs
. id. ib. 12, 504.—II. Derivv. A. Ixīŏnĭus (-onĕus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Ixion: Ixionei rota orbis, Verg. G. 4, 484: Ixionii amici, Lampr. Heliog. 24.—B. Ixīŏnĭdes, ae, m., son of Ixion, i. e. Pirithoüs, Prop. 2, 1, 38.—In plur.: Ixīŏnĭdae, ārum, the Centaurs, Luc. 6, 386; Ov. M. 8, 566.